The question. What is the difference between nude art and pornography.
The answer. Could you show your mum

You've not met my mum! lol

But for me it is far simpler....... Is it nudity or sexual (I appreciate that this was a rhetorical question)?

Tony

As a few people here know I am trying to use a new camera.
I eventually found an online group that I joined, and its full of useful information.
One question arose and the very simple answer made me smile, and I suppose it could apply to quite a few pictures we, as naturists, take.
The question. What is the difference between nude art and pornography.
The answer. Could you show your mum

Simple answer - anything that would go in a top shelf magazine is porn but there is a fine line between other things. Such as, is your model touching themselves prevocatively? That makes it erotic so therefore could be porn.

As a few people here know I am trying to use a new camera.
I eventually found an online group that I joined, and its full of useful information.
One question arose and the very simple answer made me smile, and I suppose it could apply to quite a few pictures we, as naturists, take.
The question. What is the difference between nude art and pornography.
The answer. Could you show your mum

I love that answer!

My own mother is long gone, but my alternative is "would I put it on the wall at home where visitors can see it?"

nib

Pornography and art. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

Perceptions shift with the decades, just like humour and a bride's nightie.

Ask a hundred people where the line is drawn and you'll have a hundred different answers. Many years ago I gave a lecture on indecency (it was a trainee lecture before I qualified as a Police duty instructor) I found it impossible to define. I remember using a couple of magazines as examples. What I do remember is that afterwards all my male colleagues wanted to see the mags. They knew they were pornographic but the definition was quite another matter. I suspect that the mags contained no more than you would see in some daily newspapers today.

Davie  8)

Pornography and art. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

Perceptions shift with the decades, just like humour and a bride's nightie.

Good point (no pun intended)

As a few people here know I am trying to use a new camera.
I eventually found an online group that I joined, and its full of useful information.
One question arose and the very simple answer made me smile, and I suppose it could apply to quite a few pictures we, as naturists, take.
The question. What is the difference between nude art and pornography.
The answer. Could you show your mum

Simple answer - anything that would go in a top shelf magazine is porn but there is a fine line between other things. Such as, is your model touching themselves prevocatively? That makes it erotic so therefore could be porn.

H&E is on the "Top Shelf"and, if it were on general sale, BN would undoubtedly join it.  We do not class these publications as pornographic but because breasts, bits and bums are shown, the general public have a different view.

An oil painting or statue which is anatomically exact in the minutest detail is accepted as art, whilst a unclothed photograph is rude, dirty or pornographic even if it does not show all of the bits and pieces.

Simple answer - anything that would go in a top shelf magazine is porn but there is a fine line between other things. Such as, is your model touching themselves prevocatively? That makes it erotic so therefore could be porn.

H&E is on the "Top Shelf"and, if it were on general sale, BN would undoubtedly join it.  We do not class these publications as pornographic but because breasts, bits and bums are shown, the general public have a different view.

An oil painting or statue which is anatomically exact in the minutest detail is accepted as art, whilst a unclothed photograph is rude, dirty or pornographic even if it does not show all of the bits and pieces.

Think you are being a bit pedantic here, Emesty. Think it was plainly obvious that "top shelf magazines" is synonymous with the likes of Penthouse, Fiesta et al. In my local shop, top shelf magazines also include FHM, Mens Fitness, OK magazine plus a whole host of computing/gaming mags - I was not referring to the "location" more the "attributed synonymity" with the phrase.